Dohrniphora cornuta (Bigot)

Disney, R. H. L., Prescher, S. & Ashmole, N. P., 2010, Scuttle flies (Diptera: Phoridae) of the Canary Islands, Journal of Natural History 44 (3 - 4), pp. 107-218 : 118-121

Dohrniphora cornuta (Bigot)

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Phora cornuta Bigot, 1857 .

Phora navigans Frauenfeld, 1867 .

Phora cleghorni Bigot, 1890 .

Phora venusta Coquillett, 1895 .

Phora chlorogastra Becker, 1901 .

Phora mordax Brues, 1911 .

Dohrniphora bequaerti Schmitz, 1915 .

Apoceph.us flaviventris Silva Figueroa, 1916.

Dohrniphora divaricata var. basalis Santos Abreu, 1921 .

Dohrniphora divaricata var. obscura Santos Abreu, 1921 .

Dohrniphora fulva Santos Abreu, 1921 .

Dohrniphora opposita Borgmeier, 1925 .

Dohrniphora crockeri Van Duzee, 1933 .

Dohrniphora willowsi Van Duzee, 1933 .

Dohrniphora cavifemur Borgmeier, 1969 (in part, male only). Kung and Brown, 2006.

Previous records

Gomera, Gran Canaria, La Palma, Tenerife.

Natural history

The larvae feed on a wide range of decaying organic materials ranging from rotten potatoes, onions, beans, rice bran, chick peas, dead insects, dead snails, sour milk, human faeces, general garbage, dead mice and other small mammals, moribund eggs of turtles and the sewage film of micro-organisms in trickling filter sewage beds.

Adults are reported from the flowers of Aristolochia , and are major transporters of their pollen in Thailand ( Bänziger and Disney 2006).

Figures

Figure 8. Dohrniphora cornuta male. (A) Hind coxal lobe. (B) Posterior face of base of hind femur. Scale bars: 0.1 mm.

Figure 9. Dohrniphora cornuta female, left face of terminal segments of abdomen from rear of segment 5 onwards. Scale bar: 0.1 mm.

Figure 10. Dohrniphora cornuta female. (A) Left face of rear of abdominal segment 6 and of segment 7. (B) Dorsal face of proboscis. Scale bars: 0.1 mm.